Akademy

Akademy (capitalized as aKademy before 2009) is an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community. Akademy is held at varying venues in Europe.

While Akademy usually takes place late summer or early autumn and is always held in Europe, Camp KDE, another contributors conference of the KDE community, is held in the Americas.

Format

The numbers below are the participation at the Akademy 2008.

Two-day KDE conference, 350 people. One-day KDE e.V. meeting, 100 people. Five-day hacking session, 350 people at the start, 250 people at the end. Social program like a reception, party and optionally a sight-seeing tour.

Conference history CodenamedYearVenueDateKDE One1997Arnsberg, Germany 28 August–1 SeptemberKDE Two1999Erlangen, Germany 7–10 October KDE Three Beta2000Trysil, Norway 9–19 July KDE Three2002Nürnberg, Germany 25 February–4 MarchKastle2003Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 22–30 AugustaKademy 20042004Ludwigsburg, Germany 21–29 AugustaKademy 20052005Málaga, Spain 26 August–4 SeptemberaKademy 20062006Dublin, Ireland 23–30 SeptemberaKademy 20072007Glasgow, United Kingdom 30 June–7 JulyaKademy 20082008Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium 9–15 August"Gran Canaria Desktop Summit", co-located with GUADEC2009Gran Canaria, Spain, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus 3–11 JulyAkademy 20102010Tampere, Finland 3–10 JulyDesktop Summit, combined with GUADEC2011Berlin, Germany, Humboldt University of Berlin6–12 AugustAkademy 20122012Tallinn, Estonia30 June–6 JulyAkademy 20132013Bilbao, Spain13–19 JulyAkademy 20142014Brno, Czech Republic6–12 SeptemberAkademy 20152015A Coruña, Spain25–31 JulyQtCon, together with FSFE, VideoLAN and The Qt Company2016Berlin, Germany2–8 SeptemberAkademy 20172017Almería, Spain22–27 JulyAkademy 20182018Vienna, Austria11–17 AugustAkademy 20192019Milan, Italy7–13 SeptemberAkademy 20202020Online4–11 SeptemberAkademy 20212021Online18–25 JuneAkademy 20222022Barcelona, Spain1–7 OctoberAkademy 20232023Thessaloniki, Greece15–21 JulyAkademy 20242024Würzburg, Germany7–12 SeptemberAkademy 20252025Berlin, Germany6–11 September

Akademy Awards

The yearly Akademy conference gives Akademy Awards, are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. There are three awards, best application, best non-application and jury's award.

YearJuryBest ApplicationBest Non-ApplicationJury's Award2005Aaron Seigo, Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias EttrichAlbert Astals Cid and Enrico Ros for KPDF.Lauri Watts for the KDE documentation. Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen for Subversion migration.2006Albert Astals Cid, Enrico Ros, Lauri Watts, Stephan Kulow and Oswald BuddenhagenBoudewijn Rempt for Krita.Alexander Neundorf for his work on CMake in KDE SC 4.Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion.2007Boudewijn Rempt, Alexander Neundorf and Laurent MontelSebastian Trueg for K3b.Matthias Kretz for Phonon.Danny Allen for the KDE Commit-Digest.2008Sebastian Trueg, Matthias Kretz and Danny AllenMark Kretschmann for Amarok.Nuno Pinheiro for Oxygen.Aaron Seigo for Plasma.2009Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro, Aaron SeigoPeter Penz for Dolphin.Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work.David Faure for greatest service to KDE. 2010David Faure, Celeste Lyn Paul, Peter PenzAurélien Gâteau for Gwenview.Anne Wilson for her community work.Burkhard Lück for improving the state of KDE documentation.2011Aurélien Gâteau, Anne Wilson, Burkhard LückMartin Gräßlin for KWin.Dario Andres for bug triaging team.Tom Albers for building up a sysadmin team.2012Martin Gräßlin, Dario Andres, Tom AlbersCamilla Boeman for Calligra Words.Lydia Pintscher for Google Summer of Code and Season of KDEKévin Ottens for his work on KDE Frameworks 5 and Nicolás Alvarez for his work on the conversion of KDE projects to git2013Lydia Pintscher, Kévin Ottens, Nicolás Alvarez and Camilla BoemanEike Hein for his work on KonversationVishesh Handa for taking over the Nepomuk maintainer hat and rocking at stabilizing the beastTimothée Giet for shaping the future and community of Krita Kenny Duffus for being the memory and soul of Akademy2020Volker Krause, Nate Graham and Marco MartinBhushan Shah for creating a new platform, Plasma MobileCarl Schwan for his work of revamping KDE's websitesLuigi Toscano for his work on localization

KDE One KDE One is the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants, and budget is 14000 DEM (7158 EUR). The results of discussions are: KParts for embedding applications into each other, definition of a filesystem standard, all applications should be internationalized, need a list of keybindings that are obligatory for all applications, and need more and better documentation. The social event is a walk through the historical town of Arnsberg. The sponsors helped with money donations consists of S.u.S.E. GmbH, Caldera Inc., LST Software GmbH, O'Reilly Verlag, JF Lehmanns Buchhandlung, Delix Computer GmbH, Dorint Hotel Arnsberg-Neheim, and Wirtschaftsförderung Arnsberg GmbH.

KDE Two KDE Two is the second KDE community meeting with 40 participants, organized by SuSE and Caldera. KDE e.V. meeting elect the new board consists of Kurt Granroth (president), Chris Schläger (vice president), Mirko Boehm (treasurer), and Preston Brown (board member).

Kastle The KDE Contributor Conference (code-named Kastle) was held at the Zámek (Castle) in Nové Hrady, Czech Republic. The conference program consists of KDE e.V. membership meeting, technical Talks, brewery tour, and hacking festival. The conference is run by KDE e.V., the Academic and University Center Nove Hrady and the Polytechnic University of Upper Austria in Hagenberg.

Conferences

aKademy 2004 The KDE Community World Summit 2004 (code-named aKademy) take place at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. The conference is jointly organized by KDE e.V., Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (WRS), and Linux New Media AG.

aKademy 2005

The KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 (code-named aKademy) take place at the University of Málaga. KDE e.V. Meeting take place at 26 August. KDE User and Administrator Conference takes place at 27 to 28 August. KDE Developers and Contributors Conference takes place at 29 to 30 August. Coding Marathon for KDE Developers and Contributors takes place at 31 August to 4 September.

aKademy 2006 The aKademy 2006 takes place in Trinity College Dublin. The conference was focused on KDE SC 4, desktop standards and cross-project collaboration, and meeting the community.

aKademy 2007 The aKademy 2007 takes place at the Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde.

Akademy 2008 The Akademy 2008 takes place at Campus De Nayer, Lessius Hogeschool.

Akademy 2010

The Akademy 2010 was held in the main building of the University of Tampere from July 2–9, 2010.

Akademy 2017 The Akademy 2017 was held in Universidad de Almería (UAL) in Almería, Spain, from July 22–27, 2017.

Stalls at the conference were held by LibreOffice, Slimbook, and SUSE, among others.

Akademy 2018 The Akademy 2018 was held at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria, from Saturday 11th to Friday 17 August.

Akademy-es YearVenueDate2006Barcelona3–5 March2007Zaragoza17–18 November2008A Coruña21–23 November2009Gran Canaria10–11 July2010Bilbao7–9 May2011Barcelona20–22 May2012Zaragoza18–20 May2013Bilbao11–12 July2014Málaga11–12 July2015A Coruña23–24 July2016Madrid15-17 April2017Almeria20-21 July2018Valencia11-13 May2019Vigo28-30 June2020Online20-22 November2021Online19-21 November2022Barcelona29-30 September2023Málaga9-10 June2024Valencia24-25 May2025Málaga20-21 June Akademy-es is a conference for Spanish community since 2006, aimed at Spanish speakers. The event is organized by Spanish local organization. KDE España organizes the event since 2008. The annual KDE España Assembly takes place during the event.

Akademy-es 2006 was held at Espai Jove Bocanord in Barcelona, organized by Badopi. Akademy-es 2007 was hosted by Hispalinux, Wireless Zaragoza, and the Zaragoza council. Akademy-es 2008 was held at University of A Coruña, was organized by the KDE España and GPUL, sponsored by Oficina de Software Libre da Universidade da Coruña, Mancomun, Igalia, Qt Software and eyeOs. Akademy-es 2009 was held in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Akademy-es 2010 was held in the Engineering Technical School of Bilbao, was organized by KDE España and Itsas. There were approximately 80 participants. The KDE España Assembly elected the new board consists of Albert Astals Cid (president), Rafael Fernández López (vice president), Aleix Pol (secretary), and José Millán Soto (treasurer). Akademy-es 2011 was organized by KDE España, was sponsored by Google and Nokia, and was supported by the Linux and Todo-Linux magazines. The event was held in two different locations: the Polytechnic University of Catalunya for presentations of first day, The School of Sant Marc de Sarrià for last two day.

Akademy-BR Akademy-BRYearVenueDate2010Salvador9–11 April2011São Paulo12–15 November Akademy-BR is addressed to Brazilian community since 2010. The purpose of the meeting is to gather and organize ideas Brazilian developers on how to help KDE in Brazil. Akademy-BR 2010 was organized by the local group named LiveBlue. There were thirty participants from all over Brazil. Akademy-BR 2011 is organized by KDE-MG.

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